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The readers and the hearers like my books, And yet some writers cannot them digest; But what care I? for when I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks. - Against Writers that Carp at other Men's Books [Criticism] Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any. - Epigram--Of Fortune [Fortune] A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,-- Did fall one day extremely sick by chance And on the sudden was in wondrous trance. - Of a Precise Tailor [Tailors] He bought a Bible of the new translation, And in his life he show'd great reformation; He walked mannerly and talked meekly; He heard three lectures and two sermons weekly; He vow'd to show all companions unruly, And in this speech he used no oath but "truly;" And zealously to keep the Sabbath's rest. - Of a Precise Tailor [Reformation] Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason. - Of Treason--Epigrams (bk. IV, ep. V) [Treason : Proverbs] Best fishing in troubled waters. - Orlando Furioso (bk. XII) [Fishing]
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